In the past weeks i was experimenting in a new templates set for the Lindsay Sharpening System , basically are thought for the hobo nickels carvers but they serve generally for any type of engravings, the idea was to reproduce with simplicity all the points that I use more to engrave nickels ,with the minor number of templates.
Finally, after talk with Steve, with its support and help, we have taken ahead the idea and the final result has been this Set of 3 Templates.

With this set you can sharp a lot of differents points:

- 50 V degree point without heels for detailing and very fine shading
- 50 V degree point with heels for medium and deep lines and for prepare inlay work
- Flat graver point
- Flat rounded corner point ,for easy background removal,the rounded corner reduce marks,especially usefull for hobo nickel carving
- Flat big radius point for sculpting works
- Stippling square point
- Stippling round point
- Sculpting Punch point in various geometries (round ,square and rectangle)
- Small round point

50 V degree point

Flat point

Flat Rounded Corner Point

detail of the rounded corner flat heels

Flat Radius Point

Square Stippling Point

Round Stippling Point

Small Round Point

Sculpting Punch

In the next days i will upgrade this post with videos and tutorials on how to sharp with these set of templates, although their use is very simple.

I think that this set will be avaible very soon,in the nexts days in the Steve's online tools catalog, i hope you will enjoy it!

A special thanks to Steve to his kindness and for support and help me with my "strange" experiments

Paolo,what a great addition for hobonickel carvers, I will be ordering two sets,, I for me and one for the HOBO NICKEL table at the show, this will enchance any carvers work with the combination of tools. Thank you Steve for adding it to the sets of templates..... Rollie,, OHNS

Paolo,what a great addition for hobonickel carvers, I will be ordering two sets,, I for me and one for the HOBO NICKEL table at the show, this will enchance any carvers work with the combination of tools. Thank you Steve for adding it to the sets of templates..... Rollie,, OHNS

Hey Rollie !Thank you for support the template set and include it in the hobo nickel OHNS table,is a honour for me

These are fantastic ..... and they are not just for nickels. General carving and sculpting of just about any small figure or element. Nice job putting these together and definitely a much needed set of chisels.

Thanks mrthe that’s brilliant, your templates and videos are just what I will need soon I believe. Also thanks for showing me that there are a great many more quality original hobo nickels in circulation than I previously thought in video chat here a few days ago, you are always so helpful and gracious.

Thank you, both! Great you have laboured to get these graver geometries up on the Forum, for the common good. As Chris says, it is worth trying these geometries on a wider range of work, and I for one intend to explore what they might do in a variety of jobs.

Mrthe (Paolo) has made castings of two of his hobo nickels ("GoldTooth Skull" and "The Mummy"). He made the casting to be given to people that purchase the "Mrthe" three piece template sharpener set. For people that have purchased the set before the castings arrived to me from Paolo, your casting should be arriving this week separately from your ordered templates. There is a limited supply of both of these castings. To make them last longer we will randomly select one or the other to go in with the template orders. So you would be receiving the "GoldTooth Skull"or the "The Mummy". (Update edit: We have now ran out of the gift castings. Thank you again Paolo for making them!)

"The Mummy"coin Paolo gave as a gift to my daughter Kaitlin. Kaitlin is finishing up her graduate studies at Johns Hopkins. Her thesis is on mummies so this coin Paolo did for her is perfect. He even engraved Kaitlin's name in Hieroglyphics on the coin. Thank you again Paolo for your kindness with this and everything you do!

Hi Paolo,
I just received your set of templates. I know they will be among the most useful ones I have! Thank you for sharing your ingenuity with us all.
Most of all, thank you so much for the gift of the 'mummy' casting.....it is awesome, and pictures don't do it justice.
Gail

thank you Gail for the nice comments, i'm very happy to know that you like it and the casting too
if you need some help with the sharpening templates check the videochat , i'm in it inthe afternoon ( spanish time) almost every day , i will happy to help

Thank you Marius for buy the set,let me know if you need help for sharp the point or if you have some doubt the next time that we will see in the videochat i promise to you that i will don't make it in Spanish XD

hehe thx man! I have been watching your sharpening videos, so I hope I´ll be all right, but Ill shout out if I have some questions! Just spent a little over $1000 at the vet for my ill dog the last week, so I haven't been able to be at the shop yet. been a little crazy here, but I´ll let you know as soon as I have tested them :-) Looking forward to!

mrthe,
You use the word "dude" frequently, but I think it gets lost in translation as to what you actually want to say. In Spanish, dude would be equivalent to amigo or colega. Can you clarify in different words what you are trying to say?

Hey Dave thank you for the correction ,is a bad translation,like my english, of "dubt" that is spanish is duda ,sorry,i'm italian but i live in spain and in a country were we talk "catalano" that is anoother lenguage,and for me talk in english is difficult haha i don't know in wick lenguage i talk a lot of time !

Your English may not be impeccable but you are understood by all I believe. Your good nature and charm is obvious and the information and help you offer much appreciated by many and by Dave also I'm sure. So whatever way you can share your thoughts with us please continue.

Mrthe, I have one question for you about the 50v. Do you use a CarbaltXD graver or an M42? With 18k I had no issues with the 50v CarbaltXD but when I went to cut nickles I broke the tip time and time again. Just wondering what you're using so I can decide whether I'm being to heavy handed or should just switch steels for the nickles.
Thanks for the great templates and the nickle cast, a very handy set with a reference nickle
Mark

Mike i never use carbalX for V points under the 90 degree,because is more easy broke the point,for hobo nickels i use m42 or hss and work perfect

Bob hehehe I really appreciate folks who corrected me because it is the only way to understand where you do something wrong and improve.
unfortunately all the schools I attended in my life have been art schools and formerly not studied languages ​​foreigners in this type of school in the academies of fine arts also.
So I've been practicing self-taught English as engraving since I started to participate in this forum only form a year ago,but quiet, it does not take away my desire to participate in this great forum where I met wonderful and generous people, great artists and many friends, who day after day bring me many skills so I'll always be a pleasure to contribute my bit to the extent that it can.

You Sir, deserve every bit of the compliments you have become in this thread. I bought the template set a few weeks ago and finally started making gravers yesterday. It took a bit to figure out exactly how the graver should look when finished...but it worked. Your pictures in this thread helped. The first one I made was the flat rounded. It cut the metal like butter.
Two months ago, I gave up on a project I was working on because of troubles with the background. I brought out the project again and your graver let me scoop out the background so fast and got it so flat, so nicely that I continued right through meal time (and I was hungry) and I finished the project in a couple of hours. Then I had a beer and food to celebrate!!!!. I am really happy with this graver and I wish to thank you. It is the most useful have...for what I work on....I'm sure.
I tried the oval punch too and it worked wonderful and could even be used to get corners too!

I am happy. This was the best 39 bucks I can remember spending on any tool. I hope you sell a lot of them and make a bit of money...Thanks!

Hey Piper ! You are welcome ! I'm very glad to know that the template set was helpfull for you and expecially for your work and you like it,but the thanks have to go to Steve too for invent produce and sell this fantastic template sharpening system
P.S.
Will be greatcas see A poc of your work,now i'm curious hehe